Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salvemini was unable to appear and combat Sorokin, because of a conflict of engagements, but the Sociology professor held the large crowd listening for 55 minutes, during which he expounded his theories on "A Realistic Basis for a Lasting World Peace...
...time when over two men a minute are losing their lives in a conflict which is a million times more important than any athletic contest, it seems strange that so many people throughout this counry are now concerned over who wins the Harvard-Yale football game...
...World War I he served as a lieutenant colonel at the tank-training center in Pennsylvania. He would have liked to join the Air Corps but Mamie Eisenhower had objected. The war was scarcely over when Colonel Eisenhower became convinced that a new world conflict was brewing and he set himself to studying modern warfare with the assiduity with which some men study storms, trying to figure out what is coming so that they can handle...
...there are any private fights they must be put on the shelf until the big battle is over" was the way Harry Bridges, the allegedly "red" leader of the strategically crucial West Coast longshoremen, summed up his stand on the stormy conflict that has raged over his proposed deportation by Attorney General Biddle...
Smacking thoroughly of Irving Berlin from its thirteen songs to its superficial plot, "Holiday Inn" is the sure-fire musical it has to be. Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby supply able song-and-dance accompaniment,a t the same time filling the order for time-worn romantic conflict. Round one goes to Astaire when the tranquil night club trio of Crosby, Astaire, and Virginia Dale splits up, Crosby retiring to a farm, while his hoofer pal wins the gal and goes on hoofing...